A tribute to ee cummings : "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing, than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

if up's the word;
and a world grows greener
minute by second and most by more--
if death is the loser and life is the winner
(and beggars are rich but misers are poor)
----let's touch the sky:
with a to and fro
(and a here there where)and away we go


in even the laziest creature amoung us
a wisdom no knowledge can kill is astir--
now dull eyes are keen and now keen eyes are keener
(for young is the year;for young is the year)
---let's touch the sky:
with a great(and a gay
and a steep)deep rush through amazing day


it's brains without hearts have set saint against sinner;
put gain under gladness and joy under care--
let's do as an earth which can never do wrong does
(minute by second and most by more)
---let's touch the sky:
with a strange(and a true)
and a climbing fall into far near blue


if beggars are rich(and a robin will sing his
robin a song)but misers are poor--
let's love until noone could quiet be(and young is
the year,dear)as living as i'm and as you're
---let's touch the sky:
with a you and a me
and an every(who's any who's some)one who's we